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Hello, my name is Bonita Lacy I have over 25 years of leadership, project development, entrepreneurial and business and government advisory experience. I am the Director of a 25-year-old tax exempt organization; we specializing in turning lives around and visions into realities through actions when needed by families.  Our nonprofit mission is to have children in homes and communities which are healthy, whole, stable and safe. We address needs of families to achieve our mission.  What we realize and what legislators know is that DNA trauma passed on as a legacy along with the lack of finances due to historical denials and laws often causes so much of Black society's problems,  Those lacks are behind the causes that breeds crimes for survival, it causes health problems and mental health is impacted all stemming from the invisible unspoken war on Black finances which started from practices during and after slavery leaving a financial deficit as the legacy of those harms .  Those policies and practices were the seat of building this nation and unequitable hoarding and denying recompense up until today is an extension of that oppressive era designed to just impact Black people throughout history to keep them as a subservient labor force.  The lack of livable wages and lack of fair compensation when harmed leaves a financial deficit in Black peoples lives causing what we identify as a wealth gap where a small percentage escapes to financial freedom.  That lack and it breeds desperation for financial survival and also for the desire from stagnation when faced with deprivation barriers causes people to make criminal decisions.  

My career spans industries—from launching service-based and retail businesses to serving as a consultant and government solutions advisor. Today, as a solution based social impact-preneur (a word I created and use) as I continue to support issues which can be solved that makes impacts on the lives of people both Black and white who often have contrasting issues.  

My approach is spiritual, visionary, impactful, and practical.

I design ventures and develop frameworks that guide implementation and deliver results based on measurable impact. 

At the core of my work is a belief that ideas and solutions are revealed through divine inspiration—what I call Creator Intelligence (CI) a parallel the faith-based AI. This is where strategic insight is birthed—guiding innovations and solutions that are simple, affordable, attainable, and measurable in their outcomes.

The 440400 Social Impact Venture Fund is one of the most significant initiatives I’ve undertaken in recent years. It is designed to address a deeply rooted, age-old issue with an enduring, modern-day solution—created to have a meaningful and lasting social impact without force.

This vision was conceived at the reflection pool—the feet of Dr. King in Atlanta.   Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.  had an unfulfilled vision for the negro.  As part of his legacy, he left blueprints for inspiration for future generations to pick up and use for transformative change, one which serves as the foundation and inspiration of this mission.

The 440400 Social Venture Investment Fund is a response to Dr. King’s final call—a call for economic justice and empowerment for the Negro community. What this venture does is provides financial support and a reprieve for descendants and it is our way to have people address slavery's lingering impact and to actually do something. 

“Faith, legacy, and impact.” are the reason for this investment venture.

I have received, many community, and notable awards and honors- council of state government dealing with corrections, reentry recidivism reduction program creation, the nonprofit Healing Hearts of Families the organization I founded in 2000 received congressional recognition. have served on the restorative justice board for the City of Alanta courts. I am currently serving on the holding and investment board for Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR USA)  

“Learn more about the nonprofit work and the history of reparations calls go to healingheartsusa.org our sponsor orgranization for the venture investments to families and click on the 440400 page on the site click any bold link.

The reason for the 440400 venture is I have been supporting people who do not have enough financial resources although many of them are working,  They are peicing together jobs to manage taking care of their families, if they could free their minds enough to get more skills or a vehicle to get to better jobs and pick up their children they would be in a better financial position. This venture gives them 40 months of assistance to do that. .

I am on a mission to use the 440400 Venture as a solution for as many of the people living that way as it was given to me to close some of the wealth gaps with our influencers whom they support being the impactful catalyst in building captial for the closure.  I see so many of our Black influencers being guided to invest in causes the people who have not invested in the life they now live, they have become a cash cow through their talents.  The same people who by silence are delaying support for their family's generational harms. People who have historically separate them from their community, in their ear convincing them to ignore and neglect the actual needs of their own culture. 

Our influencers are following other peoples way of supporting people who already have money,  that too started in slavery, we have morphed into giving and investing in the traditional ways of turkeys and toys instead of our needs for financial freedom.  Then the people receivng these once or twice a year supports come to organizations like mine asking to sign up for holidays from the heart assistance because they have their lights cut off and they need finances to keep the lights on in the cold of winter, turkeys and toys  does not keep the people housed, come January they are in eviction courts. 

Our goal is to partner with influencers to make a impact using social influence and affordable capital to make lasting change that will give our people a hand up out of the 400 year financal wars targeting them over centuries forcing all but a few of them to live in poverty.. This financial lift will provide a Black culture a financail code shift towards increase earnings and investments to help close the Black wealth gap. If you are reading this and are down for the culture join me and the rest of us taking this journey to intentionally and affordably do our part in closing some of that wealth gap.

Reparations efforts are constantly being delayed, ignored and masterfully denied at every level of government, people making the decisions are only paying themselves as they sit on committees and studies that are not needed as a visage to not pay the beneficiaries of the harm what is rightfully due.  Black descendants needs new strategies to address that fight, they also need to survive inbetween.

Until Then! I Think One Strategy is That We Invest, Educate, Build Support and Grow Wealth To Address Closing Some of Our Finacial Wounds Labeled as Wealth Gaps. We Invest where it matters in our families, our business and in healing by take Our families to places to experience some healing.

We Invest in the 4 40 400 Capital Ventures Investments, Growth and Adancement Initatives as it funds our sustainability needs now and for the future regardless of the REPARATIONS Delays.

You can contact me on our contact us page here or by email at reparationstrust@gmail.com or bonita@healingheartsusa.org 

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Bonita Lacy
Founder, 440400 Socia Impact Venture Fund